Capturing the Day's End at the Beach
Truth: travel is hard. Or I am. Or these kids are. Or just the introvert part is?
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I don’t think it’s just me and us.
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I feel hypocritical showing adventures and pretending it’s all sunshine and roses. It’s not.
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They/ “the snarky one” gives lip all day. Finds reasons to push me. They’re hyperactive. Loud. Singing. Making noise. Overtly silly. Adding outer noise to my inner noise trying to figure out or reshuffle or route traffic etc.
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So tonight we had the triannual “This is a team effort trip and get in shape or we won’t do them” talk. Praying it worked. I think we do this every trip without Dad for a couple of days and then we... Read more